Posts Under Film Lists Category

There are literally thousands of films produced globally each year and for various reasons, including; time, geography, and distribution, it is for all practical purposes impossible to see all the quality movies that are released. In addition, since major studio releases tend to dominate movie screens, the chances are slim that you will see that small independent gem, documentary, or… Read more »

For a lot of people in this world, an office job is just something they do to make money. Not everyone has achieved their deepest passion, instead trying to make do with sitting on their backside for eight hours a day (or more) filling in spreadsheets and merging emails. It can be a difficult cycle to escape, especially when bills… Read more »

You might call these movies crap, but there are many who would disagree. In fact, some would go so far as to say these are some of the best films ever made! Who’s to say they’re wrong? Cinema can be very polarizing and opinionated and what if all the critics are wrong about what constitutes a masterpiece? These films might… Read more »

2017 was a year that stood out for women in Hollywood, with the many campaigns set up promoting equality and safe working environments. The year was also a great one for female directors, with Sofia Coppola winning the best director’s prize at Cannes, and many fantastic women directed films being showcased all over the world. Now let us appreciate 10 of… Read more »

2017 was a good year for indie cinema in the U.S., with some movies turning into theater hits. This list focuses on the best 10 productions of all genres. The criterion applied is absence of participation by Major Six in the funding of the movie – that is why ‘Get out’ or ‘ ‘the disaster artist’ are excluded from the… Read more »

Filmmaker have frequently turned to the world of music to find the subject of their documentaries. Singers and icons abound worthy of closer inspection, and films provide an opportunity for fans and neutrals alike to journey deeper into their lives behind the public facade. Music documentaries have a rich history too: films like Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense (1984) and… Read more »

Fight Club was a box-office bomb upon its release yet it has since became a cult classic, an artistic triumph, and cultural anomaly. The film has gone on to inspire several articles and video essays that interpret the film as a cinematic criticism of anarchy, nihilism, and hyper-masculinity, all confidently claiming the film perceives these practices as being self-destructive forms… Read more »

Tragedy for the purposes of this list does not mean films that are very sad. Rather the films selected explore themes associated with Greek and sometime Shakespearian Tragedy. Throughout this list, philosophers and theorists of the tragic have been cited. This use of theory to discern what is properly tragic is controversial. Raymond Williams for instance argued that the tragic… Read more »

Films are an escape for many. You visit a theatre to be ripped away from reality. You prepare your television or computer to revisit a unique place that wowed you on the first watch. The entirety of many films is a very specific experience that can be described plainly as “cinematic.” Think about it: that epic ending to your favourite… Read more »

2017 is officially over, and with this, we will have a look at some of the foreign films of the year – but not only “some” films, only the best ones. Take into account that this list will be based on Hollywood standards, meaning for “foreign” to any movie outside Hollywood/English speaking productions. Last year was great in terms of… Read more »

2017 has been a year that has been lacking laughs in terms of mainstream news. The world is divided politically, monsters in powerful places – and our heroes alike – have been revealed as sex offenders, and many talented people have left us. In short, it’s all been a bit depressing. Thankfully, the movies have been there to keep our… Read more »

All throughout life, an individual love is seen as one of the most important things to experience. Whether it be via an spiritual connection with God, or in the conventional way by getting married and forming a family, love and its expressions have seemed to be in the center of our concerns since the dawn of humankind. We all expect… Read more »

Horror is the country music of movies. Most of them suck, the rest are tolerable, but a few are brilliant—so good that they transcend the tired conventions of an oversimplified genre. This is not meant to be demeaning; it’s simply a fact supported by rating sites like the Internet Movie Database. Of IMDb’s top 250 films, 181 are in the… Read more »

On a philosophical level, violence is rather difficult to define and violence can have connotations reflective of temperament and psychical states. Any sense of disturbance or perturbation may be said to be violent, however artfully rendered. Slavoj Žižek argues that there are distinguishable types of violence, namely subjective and objective violence. Subjective violence which is manifestly apparent as it seems… Read more »

To love cinema is to be a padawan in the art of gold mining for obscure films around the world, learning about different cultures through their rich artistic expressions. There’s a bit of Indiana Jones in every movie buff, or there should be, since intellectual laziness never does well. So to help with this goal, I have selected titles from… Read more »

Not every movie can rake in money like Wonder Woman or Beauty and the Beast. Every year, studios take big risks by putting too much hope in a project that ultimately fails. Sometimes, the box office failure can be seen from a mile away, as was the case for last year’s Gods of Egypt. Other times, an otherwise promising movie… Read more »